Manage Mac windows with Moom
Manage Mac windows with Moom
Use shortcuts and maximise buttons to move Mac windows – in a snap
IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to use Moom to efficiently manage windows on your Mac
YOU’LL NEED Moom, macOS 10.13 or later
For years, Mac window management was stubbornly manual, demanding endless dragging and resizing. Ironically, Microsoft showed Apple how it was done with Windows 7’s Aero Snap, which let you drag a window to a screen edge and have it instantly fill half the display. A ‘mere’ 15 years later, Apple finally caught up with macOS 15 Sequoia, adding a raft of snapping tools to the Window menu. But app developers had already stepped up. Most notably, Moom ($15, around £13, manytricks.com) gave Mac users a better way to position windows exactly how they wanted. And today it’s more flexible and faster than Apple’s implementation, which has gappy layouts and excessive animations. Moom runs as a menu bar item, but you can change that in its settings (click the gear icon). And if you want to transfer your configuration between Macs, grab Moom’s preferences file – com.manytricks.Moom.plist – by Opt-clicking Go in Finder and heading to Library > Preferences.